The dress of the Laplanders is, in one particular at least, very wisely contrived. Their thick collars effectually protect the throat and breast, which being furnished with numerous nerves and small muscles, and being the seat of the windpipe and of many principal veins and arteries, are very important and susceptible parts. The neck moreover, from its slender shape, is peculiarly exposed to cold. Hence the protection of clothing is found very necessary to the parts in question. For want of it our young women suffer much injury, which our youths avoid by running into the contrary extreme of tying their neckcloths so tight as to make themselves as red in the face as if they were half strangled. We Swedes are accustomed to have all our clothing made very tight. Not only the neckcloth, but the coat, waistcoat, breeches, stockings, sleeves, &c., must all stick close to the body, and the tighter they are the more fashionable. The Laplanders, on the contrary, wear only two, and those slight, bandages about them, which moreover are broad, and therefore less injurious than a narrow bandage in any part. Those to which I allude are the waistband and knees of their breeches, both made sufficiently loose and easy. To-day I gathered the following plants.--A reed-like panicled Grass, with a very slender branched stem. (This appears to have been _Arundo Calamagrostis_, _Fl. Lapp._ _n._ 42.) A great aquatic _Carex_, with inflated, whitish, pendulous spikes. In more dry situations they were upright and shorter, but in every other particular the same. (_C. vesicaria._) A grass with a slender dark-coloured panicle, approaching the stem. (_Agrostis rubra_, _Fl. Lapp._ _n._ 46.) _July 25._ The lakes in this part of the country did not afford me so many plants as further south. Their bottoms were quite clear, and destitute of vegetation. Their shores were no less barren. No Water-lilies (_Nymphææ_), no Water-docks, &c., (different species of _Rumex_,) grew about their borders, but the surface of the water itself was covered with the Water Ranunculus (_R. aquatilis_), bearing round as well as capillary leaves, and whitening the whole with its blossoms. I could not but wonder to see these broad patches of white spread over the lakes, though, when I passed up the country but a fortnight before, I had not perceived the least appearance of even the herbage of the _Ranunculus_ that composed them. Now its branches, an ell in length, swam on the surface. The growth of the stem must be very rapid, as it often proceeded from a depth of three fathoms. Some of the plants thrown up on the shore had capillary leaves, as are all those which grow under the water. The root resembles that of the _Iris_.